A year of free comics: Two by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Like many of the cartoonists spotlighted here, Rosemary Valero-O’Connell is an up and coming MCAD grad who draws in a style infused with classic illustration. She’s repped for art by Out of Step Arts where you can buy several beautiful prints. She has a longer work called Black Sun Rising that she’s been working on for a while, and she’s the artist on Mariko Tamaki’s Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up on Me due from First Second in 2018. AND she drew an issue of Lumberjanes. Definitely a name to look out for.

Heidi MacDonald is an award-winning editor/journalist with 20 years. An editor at Disney and DC Comics, she edited such titles as The Lion King, Scooby Doo, Swamp Thing, and Y: The Last Man. She cohosts Publishers Weekly’s graphic novel podcast More to Come.